Head of Patient Safety

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cancer care provider in Liverpool seeks a Head of Patient Safety. This role emphasizes developing and managing patient safety protocols, ensuring alignment with national standards. Candidates should possess a Master's degree and experience in senior management within the NHS. Key responsibilities include upholding the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and monitoring safety effectiveness for diverse healthcare settings.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable recent experience as a senior manager within an NHS organisation managing patient safety.
• Sound knowledge of patient safety within the NHS.
• Proven ability to promote and facilitate change.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
• Continuously improve patient safety through alignment with national safety strategy.
• Ensure effective safety reporting mechanisms and engagement with stakeholders.

Skills

Patient Safety Management

Clinical Regulations

Training Development

Change Facilitation

Education

Masters Degree or equivalent qualification

PSIRF training

Patient Safety Specialist training

Human Factors training

Job description

Right to work: We actively promote diversity and inclusion. This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

This post is open to employees of the five LAASP organisations. As part of your application, you will be asked to confirm that you are a current employee of The Clatterbridge Centre, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool Women's Hospital or, The Walton Centre

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is seeking to appoint a Head of Patient Safety to lead, manage and develop all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and quality governance within the Trust. With a particular focus on PSIRF, complaints and PALs. The post holder will develop, lead, implement and sustain an effective Trust patient safety strategy at both a strategic and operational level in line with the national patient safety strategy, and lead the patient safety committee. They will also oversee the process of patient safety investigations, learning, assurance mechanisms, patient safety/quality improvement projects and monitoring effectiveness to, and will lead on PSIRF learning responses, where appropriate, and Duty of Candour conversations with patients and families.

This role will provide the successful candidate with an opportunity to establish and develop a high performing patient safety and quality governance function across a multiple site organisation.

Main duties of the job

To be the Trust's patient safety expert; leading, managing and developing all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

To continuously improve patient safety through implementation of the NHSE/I Patient Safety Strategy/National Patient Safety Strategy ensuring alignment with the Quality Strategy; leading the implementation PSIRF.

Management of the process of patient safety investigations, learning, assurance mechanisms, patient safety/quality improvement projects and monitoring effectiveness.

To support governance mechanisms so that Divisional staff manage patient safety investigations and implementation of learning and its effectiveness. To ensure there are effective safety reporting mechanisms and engagement with external stakeholders including the National Reporting and Learning System, NHS England and commissioners. To produce assurance reporting on the patient safety management and its links with learning and quality improvement.

To operationally lead across the quality governance agenda including complaints and PALs. Deputy to the Deputy Director of Quality Governance.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive

Vision, mission and values :: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

Person Specification

Substantive Employment

• Employed by a LAASP organisation

Qualifications

• Masters Degree or equivalent post graduate qualification or equivalent knowledge or experience in an associated subject matter
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• PSIRF training
• Clinical registrant
• Patient Safety Specialist training
• Human Factors training

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable recent experience as a senior manager within an NHS organisation managing patient safety
• Demonstrate sound knowledge of patient safety within the NHS
• Knowledge and experience of learning and assurance mechanisms and reportingSound knowledge base of the NHS, its values and operational framework
• Experience of development, implementation and monitoring of action plans
• Able to promote and facilitate change
• Excellent reporting writing skills, together with interpretation of highly complex information
• Experience of devising training and development plans to support sustainable change
• Experience of delivering training and engagement of staff on patient safety issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.